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Today's LaNacion. Doesn't name them other then general areas of 8th St and 12th St and RedZone Josefina. Kind of a societal commentary article on the sorry lifes of working girls and the lousy conditions with a twist of health issues woven in. Worth reading.

I Google translated it for posting but I thought it was pretty accurate. The part about whether the foreigner was being enticed or was offering more for what we don't talk about here wasn't clear, in original or translated, and so we won't post about that part even though it was on page 1 of the Sunday edition of the #1 paper in CR.

http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... d%3Dimvnsa

I read the translation and the original, though my Spanish isn't perfect. From my own knowledge of that area, which I don't frequent much, I'd say most of the article is true, though I don't think there are 30 places open 24 hours a day, if that's what they mean to say. There might be 30 places somehow or other, and there might be some place open at any time of day or night, but 30? If so they must be pretty invisible.

One other gripe I had was the idea that gringos and dollars are the cause of the 'forbidden' behavior. It might be comforting to the national pride to think that foreigners are corrupting the Pura Vida, but anyone who has been through that area knows that locals are the meat an potatoes of the clientele, for whatever goes on.

But there were some good points made in there. Worth a read.

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"The only normal people are those you don't know very well." Joe Ancis

Yes and the make it all sound very down scale and scary.

No mention that most of the pensiones are close to the government offices and that they do more business during the day with tico office workers than gringos...

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